did you know?

[fflo]

A "designer decimal" is a rational number with an "interesting" decimal expansion, like

        10000/9899 = 1.01020305081321345590....

Do you see what's interesting about it? I kinda dug the first few digits, but had to be told the real "hunh!" of it.

I'm betting on paperkingdoms to get it, of course. Anybody who can beat her to it wins her/his choice of my broken-necked giraffe candle or my root-beer-smellin' pencil!

Comments

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I got it, and I'm not even a math person! And I don't want to spoil it for others. Or should I?

However, while I am intrigued and would like to experience your root-beer-smellin' pencil at some point, I don't feel the need to own it.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Good on you, LLY! Go ahead and spoil it, I say ....

Perhaps I could interest you in some fancy Italian paperclips as a third option. Along with a sniff of the pencil, should you like.

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Well then, who can resist? Every 2nd place is the sum of the two, 2-digit numbers before it. Whee.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

indeed! know what the math people call that?

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Hell no! Tell me!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Technically, that last "90" in your example breaks the code! Though I didn't even notice until reading that exotic definition which spelled out the first several numbers in the sequence.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

maybe it's only interesting up to a point... :}

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Ha! Rounding off clearly makes it less interesting.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I'm sure one of the other comments, which I swear I have not read yet, has already mentioned the fibonacci sequence, so I'm almost certainly out one root-beer-smellin' pencil. Each pair of digits is equal to the sum of the two preceeding pairs of digits.

Way cool.

[mrfrog.livejournal.com]

I get it!

It's how much the price of gas should be today!

[paperkingdoms]

Late to LJ today. But I did get it. :^)